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NEW DELHI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is likely to start the process of open house discussions on its consultation paper - Tariffs for basic services - from November 12. The open house discussions on basic tariffs consultation paper, for which the last date for receiving written responses from the stakeholders has been extended to November 5, is likely to be held in Chennai on November 12 and in Kolkata on November 13,...

NEW DELHI: Deepak Parekh-headed panel to look into the issue of compensatory tariffs for imported coal- fired projects of Tata Power and Adani Power has submitted its recommendations to electricity regulator CERC. With the committee finalising its recommendations, the two companies might be closer to effecting an increase tariff for electricity generated from their plants in Mundra, Gujarat. The recommendations pertain to compensatory tariffs for Tata Power's 4,000 MW plant and Adani Power's 4,620 MW project.

NEW DELHI: AUSPI, the body representing CDMA players, today urged telecom regulator TRAI to continue with its policy of 'no intervention' in tariffs amid reports that the regulator could end its tariff forbearance policy. "The Authority may continue with its policy of forbearance and desist from intervening in the market," AUSPI said in a letter to TRAI chairman J S Sarma. It also took up the issue of the regulator asking its member companies to present the business case of for their low tariffs after Bharti Airtel had approached TRAI alleging predatory pricing by new operators.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has stayed an interim order of the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL) to allow payment of compensatory tariffs by state utilities to Tata Power and Adani Power on Monday. The court also asked APTEL to expedite hearings and take a final decision on the matter quickly. Tata Power supplies 4,000 mw of electricity to Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana and Punjab while Adani Power has entered into long-term agreements to supply 2,424 mw to Gujarat and Haryana.

NEW DELHI: GVK-run Bengaluru International Airport Ltd (BIAL) has asked the Airport Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) to take only 30% of nonaeronautical revenue, such as from retail shops and food and beverage sales, to cross-subsidise airport charges and user development fee at Bangalore's Kempegowda International Airport. The move, if accepted by the airport regulator, could increase the user development fee that passengers need to pay as well as the charge levied on airlines.

NEW DELHI: In a move that could decisively impact the transaction cost of the exporting community and spur private investment in ports, the finance ministry has mooted freeing of tariff fixation for port services. Commenting on the Planning Commission's latest proposal that an unfront normative fixation of tariffs could be resorted to, till the present cost-plus system is scrapped, the ministry said such an interm arrangement is avoidable. It said norm-based tariff setting for new port capacities to come up under the public-private partnership (PPP)

INDORE: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India will come out with new tariff for long distance calls and also fix interconnection charges between two points for basic telephone services this month, its chairman M S Verma said on Friday. "We will come out with new tariff for basic telephone for long distance services and would also fix inter-connection charges between two points (cities) in January", Verma told reporters. On the issue of Cellular Operatiors Association of India's petition with regard to tariffs, he said BSNL was initially allowed to offer attractive tariffs with free incoming facility for 90 days only.

NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Friday extended the deadline for receiving written responses on its consultation paper on 'Tariffs for basic services' by eleven days to November 5. The extension was given after TRAI received request from various stakeholders for extending the last date for consultation paper in order to enable them to provide comments after an in-depth analysis, a statement by the telecom regulator said...

NEWDELHI: Telecom operators will now be able to offer a special set of tariffs for calls to their own customers and different rates to subscribers of any other network. This will benefit large and integrated telecom operators such as Reliance, Bharti, BSNL and Tatas which will be able to offer special packages to their subscribers for intra-network calls. Earlier, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) disallowed Reliance to offer lower tariffs to its subscribers for making calls within its network.

NEW DELHI: India's second largest telecom operator Vodafone expects phone call and other mobile services rates to go up every year, indicating that low tariff regime may not be sustainable any longer for the industry. "We have lower tariffs for 18 years against inflation of 8-9 per cent per year. Now, can you do that forever? No you can't," Vodafone India Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Marten Pieters said in an interview to PTI. "So the point has come where lowest has been seen, we will have to increase our tariffs every year depending on cost levels," he said.